Technical Writing

Contents

  • Motivation
  • Article types
  • Highlights
  • Methodology
  • Q & A

Motivation

  • Personal marketing
  • Know-how transfer
  • Opportunity for self learning
  • Organizational or personal documentation
  • Easier than presentation to express yourself

Article types

  • New technology announcement
    • E.g: npm package
  • Trouble shooting
  • Common problem solving
  • Case study
  • Technology comparison
  • Technology review (pros and cons)
  • Literature survey

Highlights

  • Writing existing topics again and again is not recommended
  • 1 to 1 translation is not a good content
  • Writer should confident about their content is good for reading
  • Supporting materials
    • Images
    • Code blocks
    • Sandbox, repository or deployed instance
  • Not include company's code into it, paraphrase if needed
  • Personal experiences are important
  • Add why and how, if you're insisting to write tutorial

Methodology

  • Starting point
    • Problem you solved in project
    • Concept to learn and deep dive
  • Search and be sure about it's not written
  • Summary or combination of multiple resources is an option (literature survey)
  • Add supporting materials
  • Send someone to review
  • Be open for feedbacks and improvements
  • Publish
  • Interact with readers through comments (optional)

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Thank you for listening

Technical Writing

By Özgün Bal

Technical Writing

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